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War Crimes in Gaza - Al Jazeera Investigations
Oct
24

War Crimes in Gaza - Al Jazeera Investigations

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year long conflict.

The I-Unit has built up a database of thousands of videos, photos and social media posts. Where possible it has identified the posters and those who appear.

The material reveals a range of illegal activities, from wanton destruction and looting to the demolition of entire neighbourhoods and murder.

The film also tells the story of the war through the eyes of Palestinian journalists, human rights workers and ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip. And it exposes the complicity of Western governments – in particular the use of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus as a base for British surveillance flights over Gaza.

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Community Night
Oct
17

Community Night

Members are invited to share art (original or from others) under 5 minutes each (optional). This is a time to connect and inspire each other through video clips, poetry, prose, songs, etc. It is also a time to be seen and heard. What matters to you, what moves you? It may matter to and move others too.

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Gaza Fights For Freedom
Sep
26

Gaza Fights For Freedom

This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the film through the blockaded border. It is a documentary about the historic Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more. It tells the story of Gaza past and present, showing rare archival footage that explains the history never acknowledged by mass media. You hear from victims of the ongoing massacre, including journalists, medics and the family of internationally-acclaimed paramedic, Razan al-Najjar. At its core, ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ is a thorough indictment of the Israeli military for war crimes with exclusive documentary evidence and a stunning cinematic portrayal of Palestinians' heroic resistance (Sourced from YouTube).

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We're all Going to Die
Aug
15

We're all Going to Die

In near future, everyone's gotten used to the 10, 000-mile alien tentacle that materialized in the sky, and a struggling beekeeper and a grieving wanderer must join together and take a dangerous roadtrip to get their teleported stuff back (Sourced from IMDb).

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Miral
Aug
8

Miral

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict (Sourced from IMDb).

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We're All going to Die — AI
Aug
1

We're All going to Die — AI

The Israeli publications +972 and Local Call have exposed how the Israeli military used an artificial intelligence program known as Lavender to develop a "kill list" in Gaza that includes as many as 37,000 Palestinians who were targeted for assassination with little human oversight. A second AI system known as "Where's Daddy?" tracked Palestinians on the kill list and was purposely designed to help Israel target individuals when they were at home at night with their families. The targeting systems, combined with an "extremely permissive" bombing policy in the Israeli military, led to "entire Palestinian families being wiped out inside their houses," says Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist who broke the story after speaking with members of the Israeli military who were "shocked by committing atrocities." Abraham previously exposed Israel for using an AI system called "The Gospel" to intentionally destroy civilian infrastructure in Gaza, including apartment complexes, universities and banks, in an effort to exert "civil pressure" on Hamas. These artificial intelligence military systems are "a danger to humanity," says Abraham. "AI-based warfare allows people to escape accountability." (Sourced from Youtube).

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Brazilian Palestine
Jul
25

Brazilian Palestine

Marked by its ethnic diversity, today Rio Grande do Sul is home to thousands of Palestinian immigrants, expelled after the UN shared its territory in 1947, allowing the founding of the State of Israel. As a result, the Palestinian diaspora emerges, reaching six million people living in different countries. In Brazil, the discrete Palestinian community seeks to survive, grow and gain social recognition for its economic and social contribution (Sourced from IMDb).

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Occupation of the American Mind
Jul
18

Occupation of the American Mind

Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world - except the United States. The Occupation of the American Mind takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S (Sourced from IMDb).

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In Bad Faith
Jul
11

In Bad Faith

When a Palestinian is brought onto Western media to talk about what’s happening in Palestine, it’s seldom in good faith. This video satirizes the hostile and bad-faith questions that Palestinians confront during mainstream media interviews.

Corporate journalists often ignore the material realities on the ground—occupation, colonialism, siege, and genocide. Instead, they focus on hypothetical scenarios, feigning moral outrage, or littering the conversation with logical fallacies and slanderous charges.

One option is to engage those questions in good faith, pleading your case before these self-appointed judges, hoping for a fair hearing. Another option is to refuse to distract from the focal point and reject the premise that you are a defendant in the first place, refusing to continue living under constant cross-examination.

Irreverence in the face of dehumanization can flip the script and transform the way audiences engage with Palestine. Exposing the pernicious subtext of bad faith questions—or even merely ridiculing them—can disarm them. Such an approach demystifies the so-called “conflict,” shattering taboos surrounding it and empowering others to raise their voices (Sourced from Youtube).

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Walled Off
Jun
13

Walled Off

Chronicling life under Israeli occupation, this documentary offers an intimate look at Palestinians' fight for freedom through creative resistance and challenges media narratives perpetuating biased coverage of the conflict (Sourced from IMDb).

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Reimagining Safety
Feb
29

Reimagining Safety

Worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd included calls to defund or abolish the police until a sharp rise in crime gave politicians and police supporters the fuel they needed to suppress the movement. Unfortunately, a detailed conversation about transforming public safety was never had. In this film, 10 experts discuss how policing and incarceration create more harm than good, why the system persists, and what changes can be made to make everyone safe (Source from IMDb).

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Mo
Feb
22

Mo

Mo Najjar who straddles the line between two cultures, three languages and "a ton of bullshit." The fictional Mo is a Palestinian refugee living one step away from asylum on the path to U.S. citizenship (Sourced from IMDb).

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Tantura
Jan
25

Tantura

In the war of 1948 hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated. Israelis call it 'The War of Independence. Palestinians call it 'Nakba"'. The film examines one village- Tantura and why "Nakba" is taboo in Israeli society (Sourced from IMDb).

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The Present
Jan
18

The Present

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping? (Sourced from IMDb).

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Israelism
Jan
11

Israelism

When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity (Sourced from IMDb).

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Omar
Jan
4
to Jul 4

Omar

A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing (Sourced from IMDb).

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